Chinese Fossil Vertebrates / / Spencer Lucas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Lucas, Spencer,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Udgivelsesår: 2002
• Sprog: English
• Fysisk beskrivelse: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 148 line art, 53 halftones, 51
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Chapter 1 Introduction --; Chapter 2. History of Vertebrate Paleontological Studies --; Chapter 3. Cambrian-Silurian --; Chapter 4. Devonian --; Chapter 5. Carboniferous --; Chapter 6. Permian --; Chapter 7. Triassic --; Chapter 8. Jurassic --; Chapter 9. Cretaceous --; Chapter 10. Paleogene --; Chapter 11. Miocene-Pliocene --; Chapter 12. Pleistocene --; Chapter 13. Summary --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231504614; 9783110649772; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/luca08482
• Adgang: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Spencer Lucas.

This book is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered review of China's vertebrate fossil record. It also presents a history of vertebrate paleontological studies in China and an entrée to some important issues of systematics, evolutionary history, paleoecology, taphonomy, and functional anatomy best elucidated by China's fossils.